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dig dig . week's top stories on our turkey's call for a no fly zone in syria fails to get support at the u.n. as rebels in the country declare civilian airports in their latest targets warning international flights to stay away. course of support for its peaceful nuclear program. dealing a blow to u.s. . islamic republic. the republicans freshly nominated presidential candidate mitt

romney promises a hard line stance against russia but faces criticism for his own policy. successfully. to carve five billion dollars out of his fortune. he was a fundamentally unreliable witness. from our studios in moscow with our weekly recap let's get right to the top stories the most open push for military intervention in syria came this week proposed by turkey has requested security for refugee camps inside the country which would lead to foreign forces guarding the camps while they are protected by a no fly zone but the idea of the security council several member states expressed

strong reservations about militarizing a humanitarian effort however britain and france warned they could completely bypass the un if the conflict worsen according to brian becker from the. anti war answer coalition would be like a return to the past. if the united states and and france and britain consider the united nations to be nothing other than their plaything a fig leaf for their own foreign policy yes they're very disappointed in russia and china for quote weakening the un but if the un is actually to be a voice for peace. a method an instrument to avoid war in the scourge of war to avoid the ravages of colonialism as it has pretended to be at least in the past that's very odd and ironic in fact completely hypocritical to have the french government saying to the syrian opposition you form a government and we'll recognize you i mean that's just a script from the good old days when the colonial powers operated through proxies

so it will be they those who control the monopoly of violence that is the nato powers themselves who will be the ultimate determiner of what the character is of this new so-called opposition government or what they will declare to be the legitimate government of the syrian people meanwhile syria's largest rebel group of the free syrian army has promised to expand their offensive and will now start targeting civilian airports rebels have warned international airlines to avoid damascus and aleppo they say planes arriving at those two locations are part of an alleged arms smuggling network for the government it's feared any aircraft landing there civilian or not could now be a target for the free syrian army but that is not the only tactic employed by opposition fighters that is causing international concern as artie's reports. it was another disturbing example of the many atrocities committed throughout the syrian war a truck bomb with homemade explosives headed for a checkpoint to the entrance of syria's largest city. you know love what i did

but the men that are loading it aren't assad forces they're one of the many groups fighting under the banner of the free syrian army and their captive is said to be a member of the should be a militia with a very close ties to the assad government the video filmed by the new york times and turn into an on air segment by the b.b.c. captured about human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder a potential war crime under international law the video of rebels from the free syrian army trying to use a prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber in their attacks on government forces and the cameras didn't follow the prisoner who had no idea that while being blindfolded he was actually embarking on a suicide mission he simply thought that he was being given his freedom the very next morning he was said to have a scaped after the bombs failed to detonate and the b.b.c. had aired a story on august twenty second but this glimpse into the darker side of some of the tactics now being used in the uprising never aired again the story was also pulled from the b.b.c. website the network told me that this was due to copyright issues and this very

video raises the question about whether such tactics may be more widespread among the opposition than what has been previously documented they have yet to draw the same level of scrutiny as the crimes committed by the government were taliban in syria is met with more whether by the government or the rebels the violence seems to be the name of the game and he further shatters the prospects for peace agreement reality for the civilians caught in this bitter war. now for r.t. and moscow weighing in on the syria situation is wiki leaks with julian assange promising to publish millions of e-mails showing just how comfortable the west used to be with assad and why the media is so intent on vilifying him in his first t.v. interview since he was granted asylum by a good or he criticized washington's harassment of with us he said speaking the truth wasn't harmful unlike america's actions in iraq and afghanistan some of which his website helped to expose also talked about in transit national. vaillant's

empire that he says is quickly taking shape across the developed world the works of lower sided internet giants such as google as being complicit in a mammoth spying operation by the united states. from the u.k. independence party says the issues wiki leaks brings up are extremely relevant. we here in britain suffer even more from this surveillance society in the united states london is the capital world capital of surveillance everywhere you look there's a c.c.t.v. camera we are constantly monitored monitored twenty four hours a day now we we in the u.k. independence party try this the same way that wiki leaks has been trying to do but it's very difficult because you're made out to be against the rule of law or if you don't want to be surveyed you know every moment of your your waking life. the fact of the matter is that there's been no attempt to say that any of the stuff that they revealed is fraudulent or misleading the whole strike

seems to be to take them out because the actual documents speak for themselves and clearly for the most part you know it strangely damning and very relevant. and plenty more to come this hour including no mercy for minors israeli veteran speak chronicling the humiliation and brutality of their army has committed against palestinian children on occupied land. also tapping into china's monetary wealth as german chancellor angela merkel tries to persuade beijing to spend billions to support a struggling euro zone. iran's nuclear ambitions have won some powerful backing as one hundred twenty countries voiced their approval for peaceful atomic research in the country this was the key point in a unanimously adopted resolution that wrapped up a nonaligned movement summit in tehran the us and israel have been left reeling by the success of the gathering comes as a new i.a.e.a.

report suggested iran has significantly enhanced its nuclear capacity but the document was rejected by tehran as politically motivated there was another blow for israel and its western allies when un chief ban ki moon appeared at the summit he condemned their persistent aggressive rhetoric and threats of a strike on the site mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tehran says it's ironic that the us has forced iran to launch an atomic program the iranians are saying that this report came out a sensitive time to sort of distract attention away from this iranian success the irony here is that the iranians at the beginning had no intention whatsoever to produce uranium at twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the europeans by taking. the citizen. people hostage forced the iranians to take that that politicians senior politicians really know that an attack on iran would be devastating for the united states and not only for its economy but for its global

position and its credibility independent researchers psoriasis poor already believes iran is the main barrier to u.s. domination in the region. mr brime ki-moon does recognize the facts and he has said so this iran is a key player in the region and nothing much really can be solved q fowler's hurons participation and now i'm sure that the united states and israel good likeness to by human to come down hard on iran but as he's also aware of the fact there's two thirds of the countries that belong to the united nations are member countries of the nine align movement united states state department they do tend to be very aggressive in their foreign policy towards certain countries and pretty clear although i think they have the whole goal in mind they would love to be a global vision monic power with the nonaligned movement now is one hundred percent

coming together to resist this kind of question israel is being heavily criticized after several of its soldiers testified the children were often their main targets the release follows the publication of two damning reports one from british lawyers that visited israel's military courts and the other from the human rights group defense of children international the detail of multiple violations committed against children artie's policy or has the story. there were demonstrations as indeed there are if we required not be sunday which is a palestinian village in footage that was captured on camera the soldiers can be seen going from house to house and physically taking people out of their homes one person was injured at least six people were arrested five of whom were children and there are pictures of the daughters of one woman trying to save their mother as she was manhandled by the soldiers who are sitting using stun grenades now these reports come out on the heels of another damning conclusion there is ready defense

forces has come under fire from its own rank and file an organization known as breaking the silence has published the testimonies of some fifty israeli soldiers and commanders in which they deal specifically with how the idea here treats palestinian children palestinian minors they talk about the op or treat of violence by soldiers when it comes to children and at the same time they say that very often the i.d.f. deliberately targets children using them as human shields during its operations but these reports also going to say that even when children are not deliberately targeted they are not afforded any kind of protection when there is a shootout or any kind of military operation as you can witness from the distance that we published and from my own experiences as a soldier i have to say that the main point here is that there is there is no real distinction when it comes to treatment between adults and children for example we were doing constant arista courageous throughout the west bank arresting i don't know how many people you know on

a nightly basis and many of the people that we were arresting were either children or teenagers did the most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested in one of the radio parisian streets we had to basically invaded the palestinian. city of hebron the children started throwing stones at us so it's going to be picked a random kid that didn't even necessarily threw stones at us and used him as a shoe. being thrown by friends but he's supposed to detail instead of us we were hoping that that would stop him somehow that would stop his friends from throwing stones obviously didn't help him he just got injured in the occasion so it's certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding itself being criticized on a number of fronts. and still ahead for you this hour acting in bad faith. r t explores the reasons behind an unprecedented rise of islamic

extremism in russia following a series of assassinations of moderate muslim clerics. a u.k. court has shattered the hopes and the reputation of russia's. ski his high stakes lawsuit against a billionaire compatriot it. was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history artie's laura smith in london has the story for us. the final verdict in this case found against bodies which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for for. what i want to promote himself was not in court but his old scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the milky world of

russia's mega rich and what they got up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about sums of money offshore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's brought to london to school building billion ads along with their own megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this course area in that shades in a menacing way but he spared his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i'm over it intimidated him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact. we never business

partners that he was making payments to but they were only for political protection roof in russian but as he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two from this is been one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history it's been. hundreds of hours and resulted in millions of dollars worth of legal fees so we've had the results of this case knew when but that is not skiing this time around but we may see more cases of this nature here in london. this week u.s. presidential candidates have been touring key states to secure support for november's election republican mitt romney beat a barack obama to the gulf coast visiting areas hit by hurricane isaac there's also been a lot of harsh rhetoric between the two obama's supporters accuse romney of paying a little attention to us soldiers fighting abroad while the republican slammed obama's first term as foreign policy failure and that he would get tough with

russia however social sociology professor william robinson says there's little real choice for american voters. there's no real significant difference between the republicans and the democrats regard to the economic program both parties are beholden to transnational corporate interests particularly to banking interests or oil interests to the u.s. military industrial complex this is a longstanding reality of u.s. electoral campaigns increasingly their personalized increasingly the real issues at stake the vital issues for people in the united states and worldwide are not dealt with an increase in leaders simple simply personalized the time there is one difference of substance and this is coming out in the campaign and that is that the obama administration has been pursuing what we could call a very limited neocon his years in little more social programs that are a little more and really those are the only i seals are the only significant

differences right now between these two parties in their presidential candidates meanwhile in charlotte north carolina hundreds of occupy demonstrators took to the streets ahead of the democratic national convention protesters are marching through the city's business district chanting slogans and holding up signs decrying corporate influence on u.s. politics the democrats' convention is said to open in the city later on monday. earlier demonstrators gathered in tampa during the republican national convention but the turnout was less than expected due to hurricane isaac the pass through florida attacks by radical muslims on the moderate islamic leaders in russia have been on the rise recently prompting fears of a surge in extremism and influential sheikh was killed. when a female suicide bomber entered the home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes after a double assault on moderate muslim figures in central russia in july r.t.c. or peace can all found out where the roots of extremism are leaving. so the trip to

work that turned to tragedy our stance had moved he was driving when it sees a blast through him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas among believers survived to find out his deputy was shot dead in another part of town investigators still don't know the exact motivation behind the attack but the spotlights now on the other stun most people here are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in washington yes some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab families from states where it's an official religion on the got the money has to be worked off and they demand the ideology that it's. like a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling

for jihad holy war against them bus abysmal or any other radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but i thought they say different ideas are often taught in smaller mosques hidden from the mainstream. like this one form a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment blocks the art it's the mom's denying being radical but admit they do not support their stance official branches of islam . we don't divide brother muslims and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a caterer is one to discredit as. we were told here believers are taught sincerity and equality are no longer up held in modern society look with justice can only be achieved through. some one sense islam is the only thing a way of life and social order that called radical extremist and what's the punishment for stealing land is. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's

criminal court nevertheless such ideas are reportedly getting more support among young muslims for some of the. extremist literature thrown together. in the books by classical world famous authors of. prophet muhammad saying how can we expect muslims to react. the radicals use this to gain influence. of course. by the worst of radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism keep. only reversing the situation. of the. other stories on our website r.t. dot com here's a little of what's online for you right now. eleven year old pakistani girl

allegedly falls victim to a mom who is accused of trying to frame her for blasphemy in a koran burning case. and the u.s. insurance companies try to wriggle out of billions of dollars worth of payments for the damage caused by the. tens of thousands take to the streets of the first sanctions opposition rally in months to demand a democratic reforms the release of a prominent human rights activist. the latest unemployment figures for the eurozone put it at a record eighteen million in july that's more than ten percent the highest jobless rate since one thousand nine hundred five the worst affected country is spain where a quarter of the population is now out of work journalist and author. says that the

current economic policy isn't bringing a resolution to the crisis any closer. we haven't really tackled a problem with the eurozone we just have a program although study for all the different countries to reduce the deficit debt is certainly not and also is not working he says islington growth which is an even worse problem and we are in the midst of a recession certainly here in spain and very soon in many other european countries so unless we have a clear idea of how to reform the euro now we are not in detroit but it's not just the economic crisis it's also the economic policies. he says is now performing a very hard agenda of a study to cats and that he's actually biting all sectors of his funny economy and the problem is that he's not where it can it's not bringing down the deficit which is the main targets and then as i say he's damaging all other aspects of spain's economy german chancellor angela merkel has wrapped up her visit to china it was

aimed at tapping into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of its downward spiral she sought to boost the flow of investment from beijing into the europeans ability for a firewall against financial trouble that the chancellor worked hard to create however the german leaders overtures were met with a guarded response from china's leaders who stopped short of pledging more cash injections into european debt and. the european council on foreign relations explains why the chinese are in no hurry to lend a hand to berlin. the big hope in europe is that the chinese would invest in some of the new vehicles that have been crazy like the european stability mechanism . the chinese. offering lots of words of support today and yesterday but not much in the way of concrete promises to buy bonds in any case the chinese don't tend to make their bond purchases public so we don't know for example

how much the chinese invested in european bones in the last two years since the euro crisis began anyway and we probably know. there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about that in the case of their boss obviously this is a european company and so it would benefit not just germany but also france and other countries in europe but lots of the deals that have been signed. off for german companies are all going to european companies and in that sense there is a competition going on between germany and other european countries and mostly germany seems to be winning that competition. now let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world for to this hour at least fourteen civilians have been killed in a u.s. drone strike near the town of southern yemen local tribesmen say women and children are among the victims military officials claim the airstrikes were based on incorrect intelligence as the targets were thought to be armed militants recent

drone strikes are part of a joint u.s. yemeni campaign against al qaeda in the country. hundreds of buddhist monks took it to the streets of me on march second largest city mandalay on saturday they gathered in support of government plans to deport or move to camps the muslim minority living in the country the idea came after a recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the west of me in march which left almost ninety people dead according to the u.n. muslims are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. a. controversial south korean a preacher sun myung moon has died he was ninety two years old moon was the founder of the unification church which he turned into a worldwide movement the church gain notoriety for alleged brainwashing and the mass weddings of followers critics accuse him of profiteering through the church after he created a business empire that included arms factories and publishing ventures. an epic event of the past has been brought back to life in russia thousands of actors in

historic uniforms have recreated the battle of bored you know when russian soldiers fought the invasion of napoleon exactly two centuries ago. as more from the front line. battle is raging here at the field of bora deano to the west of moscow the french and the russians have squared up a cannons are blasting the infantry is squaring up and the cavalry is preparing to charge and the reenactment of the climactic battle of napoleon's invasion of russia two hundred years before cousens of people have turned out to see this reenactments and reenact as a coming both for russia and all the way from france and germany to take part really all of this on the scale of a hollywood film all the people here getting just a part of the experience of what it was like to be present at that great historical moment polly and marched into russia in one thousand told with what was then the

largest army ever assembled he intended to make imperial russia soon for peace and so become the master of europe but it was here at this point to the west of moscow that the russians decided to stand and fight the result being an enormous long and brutal civil war getting much of a battle the french guns pounded the russian lines all day rather like this but the russians failed to break they stood their ground the next day they were forced to retire from the field having lost so many men but polian took moscow but he wasn't able to keep it within two years not only had to poland failed to make imperial russia super peacekeepers the russian army that was marching into paris. it's good to see tom doing his part to defend moscow now be back in a few minutes with the headlines don't go away.